How to pass view reference to android custom view?

Question

I did as follows

1) Creating a styleable

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but I thought I would add another way of doing this as I wanted to encapsulate everything into my custom view.

Instead of calling from the outside, another way of getting a view higher up in the hierarchy, I've hooked into onAttachedToWindow() instead:

public class MyCustomView extends LinearLayout {
    private int siblingResourceId;
    private View siblingView;

    public MyCustomView(Context context, AttributeSet a) {
        super(context, attributeSet);
        inflate(context, R.layout.main6, this);
        TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.custom_text);
        TypedArray t = context.obtainStyledAttributes(a, R.styleable.Viewee);
        siblingResourceId = t.getResourceId(R.styleable.MyCustomView_siblingResourceId, NO_ID);
        t.recycle();
    }

    @Override
    public void onAttachedToWindow() {
        super.onAttachedToWindow();
        if (siblingResourceId != NO_ID) {
            siblingView = ((View) getParent()).findViewById(siblingResourceId);
        }
    }
}

onAttachedToWindow is called quite early, but apparently late enough for the whole view hierarchy to have settled. It works flawless for my needs at least and is a little bit more controlled and doesn't need interaction from outside to work ;-)

EDIT: Kotlin code added

class MyCustomView(context: Context, attributeSet: AttributeSet) : LinearLayout(context, attributeSet) {
    private val siblingResourceId: Int
    private lateinit var siblingView: View

    // All other constructors left out for brevity.

    init {
        inflate(context, R.layout.main6, this)
        val textView = findViewById(R.id.custom_text)
        val t = context.obtainStyledAttributes(a, R.styleable.Viewee)
        siblingResourceId = t.getResourceId(R.styleable.MyCustomView_siblingResourceId, NO_ID)
        t.recycle()
    }

    override fun onAttachedToWindow() {
        super.onAttachedToWindow()
        if (siblingResourceId != NO_ID) {
            siblingView = (parent as View).findViewById(siblingResourceId) 
        }
    }
}

Note: We assume that the parent of this custom View is a View itself.